South Korean class satire Parasite made history and Joker surprisingly edged out The Irishman, 1917 and Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood in Monday’s Oscar nominations. Yet, women and ethnic minorities were once again largely shut out.

War epic 1917 shocked the Golden Globes on Sunday by claiming the top prize for best drama film, while Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood won the most honors, massively boosting their prospects for next month's Oscars. Yet, while Once Upon a Time... - an homage to 1960s Tinseltown - won three prizes including best comedy, Martin Scorsese's much-vaunted Netflix crime saga The Irishman went home completely empty-handed.

God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya, by North Macedonian director Teona Mitevska won the 2019 Lux Film Prize, the EP press service reported. The winner was announced last Wednesday at a special ceremony at the Parliament in Strasbourg by EP President David Sassoli.

I don't divide films into “favourites” or any other categories. Every film has its own creative and artistic value. Every film is interesting, regardless of your taste and preferences, says actor Dimiter Marinov in an interview to Europost.

I have always been seeking knowledge and I still do. But it is not knowledge they give you at school, rather the knowledge that explains the meaning of things, film director Nikolay Vassilev says in an interview to Europost.

Japan's Hirokazu Kore-eda, who won best film at Cannes last year with "Shoplifters," will open the 76th Venice Film Festival on Wednesday with his French-set family story La vérité (The Truth)  starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke.

The Western Balkans' film scene has been thriving in recent years, reaching audiences across the world and winning awards at major festivals. And this week sees the opening of one of the biggest one in the region; the 25th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival. Founded during the siege of Sarajevo, it is today a major celebration of film, bringing together over 100,000 spectators and filmmakers to celebrate regional, European and international cinema.

Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho picked up a richly deserved Palme d’Or on Saturday for his “Parasite”, a brilliant family-based tragicomedy about the gap between rich and poor, wrapping up the most dazzling and political Cannes Film Festival in years, news wires reported.

Each of my colleagues is golden per se. No matter if he was a success or not, if he was promoted or not, it does not matter. In their early age, many actors cannot distinguish themselves, but later they work miracles, and vice versa - some work miracles when young and then go into oblivion or get lost forever, says actor Dimiter Marinov in an interview to Europost.

Israeli director Nadav Lapid's film "Synonyms", about an Israeli man who tries to suppress his origins after moving to Paris, starting with his own language, won the Berlin Film Festival's coveted Golden Bear award on Saturday, news wires reported.